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In this special episode from Linux Tag in Berlin, Dan and Fab interview Paul Frields, Max Spevak and Máirín Duffy from Fedora, Jan Wildeboer from Red Hat and Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier from openSUSE about what’s going on in their respective communities right now.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:14 | Introduction

• Berlin Drupal User Group
• Ryan aka. yareckon
• Moritz aka. zahnersatz — also check out his interview with us

0:11:57 | Interview: Paul Frields & Max Spevak (Fedora)

• FUDCon
• Fedora 11 “Leonidas”

0:35:28 | Interview: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier (openSUSE)

• openSUSE
• openSUSE Conference
• SUSE Studio
• Build Service

0:46:55 | Interview: Máirín “Mo” Duffy (Fedora)

• Fedora Design Team

0:58:05 | Interview: Jan Wildeboer (Red Hat)

• Red Hat’s Patent Promise
• Jan on identi.ca
• Jan’s Blog

Song: We’re All Gonna Die by Byron from the album We’re All Gonna Die

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This time on a very special Linux Outlaws, Dan and Fab are actually in one room together and besides being silly and having a lot of fun talk about shitty beer, Moblin, German Internet censorship, Opera Unite, Valve possibly releasing native Linux games, Nvidia prefering Windows CE to Android and much, much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:05:01 | Introduction

• This weeks live show was brought to you courtesy of Ana’s emotional blackmail, we’ll do anything for her!
• Beers of the Week: König Pilsener & Ottakringer 16er Blech

0:07:21 | Releases & News

• SystemRescueCd 1.2.1
• BlankOn 5.0
• Parted Magic 4.2
• Webconverger 4.9
• Macpup Opera
• GeeXboX 1.2.2
• Ultimate Edition 2.2
• iMagic OS 2009.6
• Security Onion LiveCD 20090613
• Wireshark 1.2.0

• VirtualBox 3.0 beta brings gaming features, no DirectX 10
• Preview: Browsing SFTP with Thunar
• German Internet now censored, presumption of innocence and separation of powers go down the drain
• Canonical wanted to shut down Ubuntu Satanic Store, but Jono cleared it up
• Opera hoping to reinvent the web by making their browser a server
• Valve to launch native Linux game in July?

0:27:48 | Microwatch

• Nvidia says Windows CE is better for smartbooks than Android — WTF!?
• SCO signs deal to avoid liquidation right before hearing

0:32:58 | Review

We discuss the Moblin 2.0 beta. You might also want to watch this video for a visual walkthrough.

0:43:29 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to The Great Roth
  
  
• Daz Fuller is using OpenDNS to set up a shortcut for the forums, for which he just types “http://outlaws” — but Chromium broke this for him in a very funny way:
• bgryderclock wrote to tell us he had a great time at SELF
  
• James Stephenson sent us a correction to last show’s Pirate Bay story
• Keith Game sent us a story about a Microsoft tech recommending Knoppix to fix Windows problems
• Patrick Craenen wrote to us with another RIAA story
• More emails this week from Oliver Ryde, Morgen Allen, Nido, Dan Dart, David Purse, Kie, Brian Hunt aka. zaphodbblx, Bob Kovacs, ZacharyJuda, Les Pounder (sent us a story about open source cars), Timothy LaFontaine, Scott, David Lidstone, Reine, Teis Dreijer, gavigai, Mickey Million, MC, 6r00k14n, Mark Adams, Matt P. and Matthew Copperwaite aka. yaMatt
  
  
• Check out the new Linux Outlaws Planet, no that’s not Planet Outlaws

Song: The Wreck of the Southern Old 97 by Ernest Thompson from the Internet Archive —thanks to Jezra for the tip!

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This week the Outlaws discuss the resurgence of the Mono wars, Libre.fm fussing over leaked albums, Squirrels on Leo Laporte’s face, USB 3.0 and multi-touch in Linux, the browserless edition of Win7 for Europe and there’s also some hockey talk and more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:03:20 | Introduction

• The Pittsburgh Penguins have won the Stanley Cup!
• Thanks to Stephen Michael Kellat for playing our promo on his show, we played his LISNews Netcast Network promo at the start
• Stockholm court: Pirate Bay judge wasn’t biased — yeah, right!
• French HADOPI law fails once again
• Beers of the Week: Salzburger Stiegl Bier and Wieselburger Gold — donated by Bernd

0:11:46 | Releases & News

• Fedora 11 “Leonidas”
• Greenie Linux 5j
• FreeNAS 0.69.2
• TEENpup Linux 2009
• Linux-EduCD 1.0
• Wordpress 2.8
  
  
• More than 100,000 websites wiped out after SQL attack, VM software maker chief hangs himself
• Last.fm founders call it quits
• Linux will be the first operating system with official USB 3.0 support
• Native multi-touch support on Linux
• Matthew Garrett on the Palm Pre
• Professor tries to deny student the right to open source his code, gets smacked down by uni

0:37:22 | Microwatch

• Is Windows killing the netbook?
• Europe to get Windows 7 sans browser

0:48:50 | Discussion

We discuss the recent resurgence of anti-Mono sentiments in the community as well as the arguments around Last/Libre.fm and “leaked albums”.

1:03:02 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Henry Standing and John H.
• Forums: More lunacy, including squirrels taped to faces
  
• Andrew Nixon emailed us to point out StormOS which is a desktop version of Nexenta — it’s still in beta at the moment but quite an interesting prospect
• Gavin Steven is looking for arguments to convince people to use Linux and to counter pro-Windows points
• Dave aka. Sojyujai tells us about his experiences with eMusic and gives a warning about the service
• David Hunter wants some suggestions for a simple video editor on Linux
• Other emails this week from Mr. Smoketoomuch, Tony Atkinson, Simon Vass, Morten, Cult, Steven (who suggested the Category5 vidcast for new users), Pierre Laguide, Kris, Kevan Vautier, John Priest, Jacob Todd, Beeza, Chad (not Wollenberg), Tim in Kansas, Scott Cann, gavigai (says “bing” means disease in Chinese), kieran, tloo, Frank Bell, Darrin Ritter and DaveQB

Song: Spider On The Roof (Live) by Keep Cool Vibration from the album Babylon Square Gardens

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This week Dan and Fab interview Stuart “Aq” Langridge of Canonical and formerly LugRadio about Ubuntu One, talk about the Pirate Party boarding the EU, Snowy, Bing and all the Linux news from Computex.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:49 | Introduction

• The original Monkey Island is coming back!
• We are giving away 20 free four-day tickets to Linux Tag, listen to the show for details
• Beer of the Week: Puntigamer

0:09:48 | Releases & News

• grml 2009.05
• Linux Caixa Mágica 14
• MilaX 0.4
• Hymera Open 20090601
• Calculate Linux 9.6 Xfce Edition
• Absolute Linux 12.2.5
• Untangle Gateway 6.2.0
• Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.10.0
• xPUD 0.9
• Tiny Core Linux 2.0
• Wine 1.1.23
• Enlightenment E16 1.0.0
• Amarok 2.1
• Google Chrome Preview for Linux — who cares, we already have Chromium
  
  
• Swedish Pirate Party boards the European Parliament
• Springsteen and Dylan back catalogues coming to eMusic
• Computex brings big news for Linux
• Snowy — an AGPL web sync service for Tomboy
• Linux Foundation to announce membership program, includes @linux.com email address
• Software patents will be reviewed by the US Supreme Court

0:40:25 | Microwatch

• Bing, the FUD engine
• Microsoft tries to rename the netbook — FAIL!
• Windows XP cash machines stealing your PIN
• In Russia, Microsoft Windows XP antitrust YOU!

0:48:46 | Interview

We interview Stuart “Aq” Langridge of Canonical (and former LugRadio host) about Ubuntu One, work at Canonical, Django, podcasting, football and much more.

• Software Tip: Empathy, the instant messaging client

1:28:17 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Gerd F., Cam, Van P., Ryan K., Paul C.
• We got audio feedback from Jon Kulp about the Behringer USB interface he bought
• We also got send an amazing dance remix of some of our quotes by bgryderclock
  
  
• Gerd Folberth from Austria picked up on a quote where Dan said something was “as useful as a chocolate teapot” and send us this video from the Naked Scientists
• Douglas Whitfield wrote to tell us about an Open Everything event coming up in September
• Daniel Devine sent us an email saying there’s supposed to be a new Toy Story film with new characters, so Debian is safe — he also tells us about laptops with OpenSolaris installed
• George (aka. SoundChaser) is really paranoid about social networks
• We had nice emails saying they enjoy the show from Andrew Mason and Leslie I’Anson
• Also thanks to Chess Griffin, Tim in Kansas, Mike O’Donohue, David from Australia, Will Noakes, Aaron, Jim (Medeiros) Shingledecker, Kevin Daire, Buzzy Nielsen (told us about wondermark.com), Roger Merriman, Alistair Munro aka. B1ackcr0w, Ian Mackenzie and Markus Huggler aka. Magbeat (send us the following links: 1, 2)
  
  
• T-Mobile USA pwned?
• Send us your non-Linux questions for our 100th show on Twitter or identi.ca and tag them with #outlaws100

Song: The song The Ballad of Marv by Byron from the album We’re All Gonna Die — thanks to Mel for the tip!

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

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This week on Linux Outlaws: Google Wave, lots of Moblin news, Microsoft losing deals and sneakily installing Firefox plugins, Dan reviews Chakra and much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:52 | Introduction

• Fab caused a massive server FAIL on Sunday and is very sorry for that!
• Check out Dan’s new music show Rathole Radio
• Someone added “Danish Weekend” to Urban Dictionary (see Episode 93)
• Beers of the Week: Fab is drinking Ottakringer Helles, send to him by Bernd from Vienna — Dan got Weetwood Eastgate Ale from the guys at Chester LUG

0:10:33 | Releases & News

• Nexenta Core Platform 2.0
• CentOS 5.3 “Live CD”
• Linux Mint 7 — G-L-O-R-I-A
• PC/OS 10 “Open64 Workstation”
• Calculate Linux 9.6
• Hacao Linux 4.21
• OpenSolaris 2009.06
• Blender 2.49
• Koffice 2.0.0
• gPodder 0.16.0

  

• Fedora is “pulling a Debian” — F11 release now June 9?
• Default media player discussion for Ubuntu Karmic — will Banshee replace Rhythmbox?
• Canonical is working on Moblin version of UNR
• Linpus set to debut first Moblin 2.0 distribution for end users
• Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu
• Google Wave to become the new email? — shiny!

0:39:09 | Microwatch

• Microsoft loses lucrative kiwi deal
• Swiss M$ deal on hold pending complaints by open source companies
• Microsoft sneaks in Firefox extension via system update
• This Week in Freedom-Hating: iTunes support confirmed for Palm Pre

0:50:10 | Review

Dan previews the Chakra Project Alpha 2.

1:00:41 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks a lot to Joe from Chester LUG, Mark M. and Marvin C.
• Forums: The King of Fail is back in the house and apparently we weren’t the original Linux Outlaws

• Scruffy Mogwai goes head-to-head with Wikipedia on kernel version numbering
• gavagai sent us a video of the World Beard & Moustache Championships, apparently until recently Germany had always won, that’s now over
• Markus Huggler aka. magbeat sent us a lot of information about the open source situation in Switzerland and the contentious Microsoft contracts
• Michael aka. Blupr sent us a link to a cool image of Tux made out of source code
• Rich Brown sent us a link to itsbetterwithoutwindows.com, an answer to the Microsoft/Asus site
• Philip Durbin sent us an old, but very funny news story
• Kristian Naugle asked us what software we use on Linux to create our artwork and Fab answers — make sure to check out the screencasts by heathenx and Richard Querin
• Brett Murch asked us to mention an new distro he is involved with: Kongoni — they also have an IRC channel on Freenode at #kongoni
• Thanks to James Polera, Matt Harrison, Jonathan Simpson, Gerd Folberth, Luke Platypuss, St3v3 and Mike Fuerst for their emails telling us the site was down
• Also thanks to Jonathan Gates, Drew of Doom, Reine, Will Noakes, adrian15, Jonathan Groll, Matt Donnelly, Douglas Whitfield, Acidphlux and The Glza for their emails

• Dell Mini 9 to be end-of-lifed

Song: War by Severed Fifth from the album Denied By Reign

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In this week’s, massively oversized episode: We interview the Linux Foundation’s Community Manager Brian Proffitt and talk about the Cisco/FSF settlement, the RIAA dissing the FSF, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation actually agreeing on something and much more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:12 Introduction

• Dan’s 29th birthday was on Monday
• Happy Towel Day
• Errata: Looks like Asus is still selling Eee PCs with Linux they are just not advertising it very well, Wolfram Alpha’s TOS require attribution
• Congrats to The Linux Link Tech Show to their 300th episode today!
• The Meet the GIMP vidcast has reviewed Fab’s Shiny Screenshots plugin and gave us a huge plug on their Episode 103 — thanks to Rolf Steinort!
• DFEY have a logo design competition at the moment, it closes at midnight on May 31, cash prizes on offer!
• Beer of the Week: Erdinger Weißbier

0:11:48 F/OSS Releases

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8
• NetSecL 2.4
• ArtistX 0.7
• Puppy Linux 4.2.1

• Moblin 2.0 Beta
• Mozilla Jetpack

0:21:44 News Stories

• Slackware now has an official 64 bit version
• Dell is now selling the Studio XPS 13 with Jaunty
• Cisco and FSF settle GPL case
• More on the alleged Last.fm scandal — according to TorrentFreak, the data in question is useless anyway
• RIAA disses the FSF
• Wikipedia adopts CC-BY-SA as co-license with 75% in favour
• Palm Pre on June 6th for $200
• Microsoft and the Linux Foundation join forces against software licensing law

0:44:01 Microwatch

• Office 2007 SP2 actually reduces ODF interoperability
• Jury awards Canadian company i4i Ltd. $200 million in damages in patent suit against Microsoft
• Red Hat sues Switzerland over Microsoft contract

0:52:09 Interview

We interview Brian Proffitt, Community Manager at the Linux Foundation about what he does all day, the new Linux.com, the legacy content from the old Linux.com, LinuxCon and the new Moblin beta.

1:20:42 Software Tip

• Wakoopa for Linux, a social network that’s all about application usage

1:27:54 Listener Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Christopher H. and Kevan V.!
• Forums: We have over 1000 users now, it’s hard to install software on Linux, the Linksys WRT160NL open source router

• x1101 sent us a Lifehacker article on re-enabling CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE for the new Xorg
• Jake Tolbert wrote us on using parts of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on normal laptops
• Jason Greer found our New User Special very useful
• Matt Harrison sent us a PHP script he wrote to generate certificates for the “Original Outlaws” forum members
• GourdCaptain tells us Arch can be quite a lot faster than Ubuntu on older hardware
• Kevan V. says the search term “Duck Porn” is still very popular with people searching for this site
• Other email from: Benny, Kristian Naugle, Barry Postle, Joe Foy (told us about a Klingon Anti-virus), Germ aka. Jeremythegeek, Barry Williams, Russ, Ryan, lostnbronx, Dave Anderson, Drew DeKoning, Mike Hingley, Francesco Angelo Brisa, Jason, Rob van Son and Upchuck

• Go Pens!
• If you live in Europe, vote!

Song: Satellite by Major Major from their album Major Major

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This week: Fab reviews the Shure SM58+X2u bundle, the new Linux.com, Wolfram Alpha, Intel gets slapped by the EU, the Ubuntu One controversy and a lot more.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:24 Introduction

• The Windows 7 RC will reboot every two hours not every 2 weeks!
• More news on the French HADOPI madness
• Thanks to Jackie for her kind words on our New User episode
• Jake Tolbert picked up on our interview with Christina Haralanova and had some interesting thoughts on comparing it with Eric Raymond’s viewpoint in The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Thomas Perl asked us to mention the first ever Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend, a hackfest and festival for Mozilla and Maemo developers in Copenhagen from the 30th to the 31st of May

0:11:20 F/OSS Releases

• Sabily 9.04
• SystemRescueCd 1.2.0
• Jibbed 5.0
• Ekaaty Linux 3
• Foresight Linux 2.1.1

0:19:54 News Stories

• Linux.com relaunched
• Wolfram Alpha
• Intel hammered by the EU, faces $1.45 billion fine
• Nokia & Intel announce open source telephony project oFono
• It turns out that a lot of breathalyzer code really is crap
• Ubuntu One Trademark Controversy — more info on the underlying technology
• Pirate Bay DDo$ attack plan

0:55:12 Microwatch

• The Asus Eee PC — “It’s better with Windows”

1:03:34 Review

Fab reviews the Shure SM58+X2u bundle.

1:11:30 Listener Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Oliver R., Stuart G. & Luke E.
• Forums: LugRadio Live 2009 discussion
  
  
  
• Keijo Knutas sent us some recently released research on electronic police states: The UK is 5th and Germany is 10th on the list out of the 52 countries surveyed
• Hendo send us a beard picture for our “Outlaw Wall of Wanted Beards”:
• YaManicKill likes cuil.com as a Google alternative
• We got a lot of feedback on Dan’s kernel panic in Episode 91
• Jonathan Gregory from Wolverhampton says most Windows users are “digital magpies”
• Jezra sent us an email about conduct on the forums
• Other emails this week from: Dave S., Brent Foor, Michel Van der List, Nido, Thomas Perl, Luke Platypuss, Tony Elmer, JonTheNiceGuy, Brent Pieczynski, Per Lindstrom and Jim Medeiros

• Alex Harrington asked us to mention Xibo, an AGPL licensed project he works on, they need a C++ coder to help them with their Linux client

Song: Your Reality by Steep from their album Your Reality — thanks to Marshall for the tip

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In this special episode, Dan and Fab give an introduction to Linux for new users. We tell you how to burn and install your first distribution, we try to explain some often used terms as well as some philosophical and political issues and we cover the basic concepts behind the OS.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

• We mention our early Podcast Production Special
• What is Linux, what is a Linux distribution?
• The GNU toolchain
• People: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman (RMS), Eric Raymond
• Guide on burning an ISO image of Ubuntu
• Good starting distros: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Mandriva, PC Linux OS
• Package formats: deb, RPM
• Where to find help: LinuxQuestions.org, Ubuntu Forums, Linux Outlaws Forums
• Helpful podcasts: Linux Reality, Going Linux
• Basic terms: kernel, shell, user space, desktop environment (Gnome, KDE), window manager
• Philosophies: open source, Free Software, copyleft

Song: Beaten Up by Ben Walker from his album This Is Not An Album

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Ogg Vorbis - 1 hour 39 minutes 19 seconds, 46.8 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week on the show: Ubuntu One, more ATI pain, Sony wants to go more open, Windows 7 RCs will be crippled, lots of announcements and Fab reviews the Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:03:03 Introduction

• Our intro clip was kindly lend to us by the guys from Eerie Radio
  
• Star Trek rocks!
• Bradley Kuhn encourages you to give $200 a year to non-profit F/OSS projects
• The Blender Institute is looking for 3D artists for their new movie project “Durian”
• Thanks again to Stefano Forenza for pimping our live show
• Google: You were searching for a TV show, would you like a .torrent?

• EuroPython 2009: June 28 - July 4 in Birmingham, UK
• LugRadio Live 2009: October 24, Newhampton Arts Centre in Wolverhampton
• South East Linux Fest: June 13, Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina

• Beer of the Week: Gaffel Kölsch

0:21:26 F/OSS Releases

• Canaima GNU/Linux 2.0.1
• BSDanywhere 4.5
• Parted Magic 4.1
• Zenwalk Live 6.0

• Open Office 3.1

0:27:17 News Stories

• WINE 1.1.21 is going to implement Shader Model 4 support
• Ubuntu One, a new cloud app service with 2 GB of free sync storage (currently in invite-only beta)
• Debian ditches Glibc for EGlibc
• SCO to finally be liquidated
• New Jaunty Xorg and ATI idiocracy leads to huge bag of hurt for a lot of people
• Qt cuts paperwork, moves to open git repo
• Sony CEO: “If we had gone with open technology from the start, I think we probably would have beaten Apple”

0:47:05 Microwatch

• Switzerland gives 42 billion CHF contract to M$ without tendering
• Windows 7 RCs shut down to force payment
• RIAA breaks their lawsuit promise

0:56:14 Review

Fab reviews the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the Eee PC 901. Have a look at the UNR compatibility list for supported netbook models.

1:03:56 Listener Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Richard C. & Christopher H.
• Forums: The Linux Outlaws Jamendo Playlist, kindly maintained by CafeNinja
• Joe Foy sent us an article about Red Hat’s case against software patents in the EU
• Chris “Not Winston” Churchill wrote in response to our recent mention of LinuxCon, he discovered it’s $300 per ticket
• Andrew Antle writes from Cincinnati with a heartwarming story
• Morten sent some information about Kiwi Linux and the reason for its name
• Dave C. said he’s put some of our posters up at work and he is also now growing a beard in our honour, he hasn’t shaved since Episode 83
• John Pokorski sent us the cool parody clip we played in the intro
• Anthony Scotti sent us a link to this awesome knitting pattern: The Good, The Bad and The Tux
  
• Oliver G. from France wrote in response to our discussion of the French three strikes law and tells us how the conflicting votes came to pass
• Other emails this week from Mikko, Neal Quincey, Daniel Devine, Richard Cutts, Nido Media, Kevan V., Brent Pieczynski, Valente Espinosa and George De Bruin

• Check out the original Dracula novel as a blog
• Meet us at Linux (Outlaws) Tag!

Song: Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame by Pornophonique from their album 8-bit Lagerfeuer

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This week: Dan quotes Connery, Google gets sued over Android name, adopt a line of Miro code, Firefox Plugin Wars, the USAF buys XP and Dan interviews Christina Haralanova about her studies on women in open source.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

0:01:05 Introduction

• Apparently EasyPeasy wasn’t called eeeBuntu before, it was called Ubuntu-eee
• Check out the MythTV Cast, it’s good!
• One step up and two steps back: France reintroduces three-strikes law
• Beer of the Week: Schorschbok, apparently the World’s Strongest Lager with 16% alcohol

0:07:49 F/OSS Releases

• Calculate Linux 9.5
• Sabayon Linux 4.1 “KDE”
• Mandriva Linux 2009.1
• NetBSD 5.0
• DragonFly BSD 2.2.1
• OpenBSD 4.5
• Kiwi Linux 9.04
• FreeBSD 7.2
  
  
• Maemo 5 SDK beta released

0:17:55 News Stories

• Google and handset makers sued over Android trademark
• US court clears breathalyzer source code requests, we discuss open sourcing of technology like this in general — the YouTube video Dan mentions on the show has, unfortunately, been pulled by Viacom
• Cutest funding move ever: Adopt a line of Miro code — Check out our very own line: “Luc Outlaws”
  
• Firefox Plugin Wars: No-Script disables Adblock Plus
• System76 launches a netbook
• The Pirate Google

0:39:01 Microwatch

• OIN looking for prior art to invalidate Microsoft/TomTom patents
• The USAF is using a “super-secure” version of XP — super-secure my arse!
• EFF sues Apple over legal threats to wiki operator

0:47:48 Interview

Dan interviews Christina Haralanova about her research on women in open source software — they recorded this interview at this year’s Oekonux Conference in Manchester.

1:11:48 Software Tip

• Ubuntu Screen Profiles, a nifty extension to GNU Screen developed in-house at Canonical

1:17:23 Listener Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Alex Harrington, Christopher H., Mark Ferns and Ryan K. (once again)!
• Forums: Dan quotes Connery
• Kie writes from Hong Kong about Chinese character recognition — Ming The Merciless at Home
• Mark Ferns wrote to us about the developer of Super Grub Disk who is apparently looking for help
• Treybuchet asks if either of us ever tried Awesome WM which we haven’t (yet)
• Sergei Van Hardeveld sent us some amusing new slogan suggestions for the Swedish and German tourist boards
• Other emails this week from Kevan Vautier, Daniel Devine, St3v3, Jeff, Reine, Joe Linux, hanta and Glenmo
• We will be attending Linux Tag in June

Song: Free from Hobo Twang’s new album Square Times

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.